The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Leading Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh detained in Tehran

Sotoudeh, 64, is renowned for defending activists, opposition politicians, and women prosecuted for removing their headscarves

The Independent UK · Apr 2

Prolific Easter egg thief who was found by police ‘cowering inside base of divan bed’ jailed

Daniel Jones, 38, was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment at Chelmsford Crown Court

The Independent UK · Apr 2

German artist sentenced to prison by Russian court for carnival display mocking Putin

Jacques Tilly has been designing and building floats for Düsseldorf’s Carnival parade, one of Germany’s best-known, since 1984.

Euronews · Apr 2

Neo-Nazi forced offline after alleged threats to MPs

A neo-Nazi has been ordered to stay off social media and away from two female federal politicians after allegedly targeting them in online posts.

AAP · Apr 2

Offenders serving community sentences are more likely to keep jobs, earn more – new research

When should offenders be sent to prison and when is it better to keep them in the community under close supervision?

The Conversation · Apr 2

Jen Shah Claims Ghislaine Maxwell Showed ‘No Remorse’ For Epstein Victims In Bombshell Interview

Former Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah has painted a chilling picture of life inside federal prison with Ghislaine Maxwell.

Pedestrian.tv · Apr 1

China ‘secretly sentences’ Tibetan monk to 7 years, raises rights concerns

A Tibetan monk detained in Lhasa in 2021 was secretly sentenced to seven years in prison by Chinese authorities, according to a report by Tibet Times (TT), cited by ANI, raising fresh concerns over alleged rights violations in Tibet.

The Times of India · Apr 1

A former New York prison guard is found guilty of manslaughter in an inmate’s fatal beating

A former corrections officer has been found guilty of manslaughter in the fatal beating of an inmate at Mid-State Correctional Facility in upstate New York

The Independent UK · Apr 1

Real Housewives star Jen Shah says she and Elizabeth Holmes were assigned ‘poop duty together’ in prison

Shah was released in December from Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas, where Holmes and Ghislaine Maxwell were also housed

The Independent UK · Apr 1

Brutal Mau Mau camps in Kenya were an extension of Britain’s colonial prison system – historian traces their roots

During the Mau Mau uprising between 1952 and 1960, the British colonial government confined an estimated 150,000 Kenyans in a sprawling network of “emergency” detention camps.

The Conversation · Apr 1